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Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
Jules Verne
French writer (1828–1905)
Henrik Ibsen
Norwegian playwright and theatre director (1828–1906)
Henry Dunant
Swiss businessman and co-founder of the Red Cross (1828-1910)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
English poet, illustrator, painter, and translator (1828-1882)
Hippolyte Taine
French literary critic and historian (1828-1893)
Nikolay Chernyshevsky
Russian writer and nihilist philosopher (1828–1889)
Randal Cremer
English politician (1828–1908)
George Meredith
British novelist and poet (1828–1909)
Saigō Takamori
samurai of the Satsuma domain, supreme commander of Japanese army, one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration (1828-1877)
Edmond François Valentin About
French writer and critic (1828-1885)
Ferdinand Cohn
German biologist (1828-1898)
Josephine Butler
British feminist and social reformer fighting to end child prostitution (1828–1906)
Antonio Cánovas del Castillo
Spanish politician and Bourbon Restoration architect (1828–1897)
Albert Marth
German astronomer (1828–1897)
Shyama Charan Lahiri
Indian yogi and guru (1828–1895)
Alexander Butlerov
Russian chemist (1828-1886)
Charbel Makhluf
Lebanese Maronite monk and saint (1828–1898)
Albert I of Saxony
King of Saxony (1828–1902)
Joseph Swan
British physicist and inventor (1828-1914)
John Langdon Down
British physician and first person to describe Down syndrome (1828-1896)
Louise of the Netherlands
Queen Consort of Sweden and Queen Consort of Norway from 1859 to 1871
Charles de Freycinet
politician of the French Third Republic (1828-1923)
Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia
German general (1828–1885)
Dora d'Istria
Romanian writer of Albanian origins (1828-1888)
Joseph Dietzgen
German philosopher (1828-1888)
Viktor Rydberg
Swedish writer (1828-1895)
Friedrich Albert Lange
German philosopher and sociologist (1828-1875)
Charles Floquet
French politician (1828-1896)
Paul Gachet
French physician most famous for treating the painter Vincent van Gogh during his last weeks in Auvers-sur-Oise (1828–1909)
Meyer Guggenheim
American businessperson (1828–1905)
Antonio Rotta
Italian painter (1828-1903)
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
American military officer, professor, and 32nd Governor of Maine (1828–1914)
Thomas F. Bayard
American lawyer, politician and diplomat (1828–1898)
Hanna Barvinok
Ukrainian writer born in the Russian Empire (1828-1911)
Iosif Vladimirovich Gurko
Russian general (1828-1901)
Effie Gray
Scottish artist and model (1828-1897)
René Goblet
French politician (1828-1905)
Maria Deraismes
French writer and feminist (1828–1894)
Margaret Oliphant
Scottish novelist, 1828–1897 (1828–1897)
Mór Than
Hungarian artist (1828–1899)
Luiza Pesjak
Slovene writer
Franjo Rački
Croatian historian, politician and writer (1828-1894)
Rainilaiarivony
Rainilaiarivony (30 January 1828 – 17 July 1896) was a Malagasy politician who served as the chief of state and co-king of Madagascar (often translated as "prime minister") from 1864 to 1895, succeeding his older brother Rainivoninahitriniony, who had held the post for thirteen years. His career mirrored that of his father Rainiharo, a renowned military man who became prime minister during the reign of Queen Ranavalona I.
Júlia Szendrey
Hungarian poet, writer, translator (1828-1868)
Dragan Tsankov
Prime Minister of Bulgaria (1828-1911)
Herman Grimm
German art historian and writer (1828–1901)
Ignacio de Veintemilla
President of Ecuador (1876 - 1883)
Mina Karadžić
Serbian historian and painter (1828-1894)
Adelardo López de Ayala y Herrera
Spanish writer and politician (1828-1879)
Balfour Stewart
British scientist (1828–1887)
Prince Adalbert of Bavaria
Prince Adalbert of Bavaria (1828-1875)
Étienne Carjat
French artist (1828–1906)
Albrecht von Graefe
German ophthalmologist (1828–1870)
Andrew Murray
South African minister (1828-1917)
Charles Allston Collins
British painter, writer and illustrator (1828-1873)
Antoinette de Mérode
Monegasque princess (1828-1864)
Boris Chicherin
Russian philosopher (1828-1904)
Edward Mitchell Bannister
Black Canadian-American visual artist (1828-1901)
Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry
French painter (1828-1886)